Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-25
CHAUIAUQUA.
Visit to the Great Lite rarf Camp
Ground Growing Cut Of The I'D
Methodist Campaigning Idea.
aacy at the Fountain Hes of Learn
ing-A Pleasing Rivalry,
AIDINE HOIEL,
CMArTALNrA.N \ Aug. l.. ~

CHAJ TAI Qua, n. Aug. l., ISL.
To the Editor of the Gazette
Time is the most important and the
most valuable commodity III all lands, but
specially so in this busy land CT YANKEE
dom. Still l must appropriate tine
enough to iot down few Of my impress.
sions shout Chautauqua. ClautauGu2 is
8 great literary camp-ground-growirg
out Of the old Methodist camp-meedLg
idea. Here the cloth and board tent Is
superseded by the handsome
cottages. And the time heightened
from the eighth day psriod 10 the three
and four months stays.
Lectures take the place Of sermons, the
!sy-man comes to the front. The scien-
list has 81 opportunity as well as the
theologisn. The body is locked after a.
well as the soul-and the mind (inteuect)
more than eitheT-mOTe tran bolh.
Chsutauqua is a university from the
other end. The university es commonly
understood, meant teachers for everything,
every science. Ch.utaUqua means e place
OF instruction for everybody. Looking at
the procession as it passed moment ago,
with its divisions of classes, Its banners
representing the present graduates, and
also the 1878, 'SS's and even 'el'f, | wss
struck with this ides, this fact, that in
the '9l's graduates Of that year there
were maDy white haired ones well up in
their nineties. Indeed of the present
year, 'S7, there is q graduate eighty-seven
years old. Cheutsuqua is open to all
ages, all sects, all conditions. Many CGtOs
are here learning "GTeek at eighty"
But the great rank and file are young
people-those who have had and those
who have not had the advantage of col
| lege or liberal instruction. The graduates
OF 49, receiving diplomas to-day in the
grand aggregate are over 5000, there be-
| ing of them present in line and receiving
in person their diplomas GS7. You find
the class esprit de corps by CLOSELY
marked competition and rivalry here Just
as anywhere else. 1t seems little queer
to see men and women, too,
in their "fortiesn receiving
diplomas, genuine sheepskins. This is z
| great 'revival Cf iatteTJ.n
One is struck with the enthusiasm, the
fXedness Of purpose Of every individual
connected with the place, whether the
simple "reading circle" or the higher
branches of "this university course"
L Dr.. Duryear Of Boston delivered The
,fBsccaIaureate" to most densely
rpacked audience, not less thaa
I 5000, all gathered too il the amphitheater
and comfortably seated. must speak Of
this so successful an auditorium, as il is.
1t is en- excavation natural circular
ravine. This was eXCevated and the
natural curves preserved without IS |
learned, any knowledge of the laws Of
acoustics by the rude director OF
his shovel and the result
us -an ellipsaidal presentation
OF ateof the most successfully arranged
halls for elocutonary purposes to be
found anywhere. Mrs. Livermore, not q
very stout, strong-bodied woman, could
be easily and distinctly heard from the
remotest tier of the circular seats.
| DR.. Duryear's Grafton was fall OF
nice distinctions, the main ideG
being that culture is higher than
education; that culture lies at the iouns
dalton, is the basis Of the ChsutsuCus IN
struction.
think education is the result OF what
one does himself, and culture what he
gathers from others; but neither can be
wholly a subjective or objective result
| am pleased with Chautauqus. Il
procure SiSal LC4Ni iOA kL4C CtaSSSS ohO
ages that attend. There are more ole
and more young people here than I have
ever seen before. The middle aged il
not here. Chautsuqua, while it has
nothing Of the pleasures and gaYeties oil
the watering places, is crest focal lenc
gathering to 1t the classes who work
who do something rather than simply en-
Joy what is done for them, what is pre-
pared by others.
The light from this great lens is per
meating not only our own land, but reach
ing out and attracting the old world. d.
Vincent is great protector, s crest or
ganizer, and sustained as he hes been b,
such men as President Lewis Miller &nt
Secretary W. A. Duncan, greater success
is still in store for Chsuauqus
Representatives from sill the states an
from other nations are here. Texas wit.
her usual enterprise and her deslCe TO &c
good snd do good, he's very large dele
cation. On single avenue l met min
Texans, six Of them from Fort Worth.
To those who contemplate going Z
, Chau.auqua, 1 have only to say, gi7
jamestown & wide berth. The route /
via BToctop. l shall bring home on
souvenir only, it is q micro photogEap
OF Chancellor Vincent, by Serene n
Ayres. From here we 60 TO the Falls
and then to Boston, expecting to be i
Fort Worth by the 3lst.